UK-DMC

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UK-DMC is classified as:

Disaster monitoring

NORAD ID: 27942

Int'l Code: 2003-042D

Perigee: 593.8 km

Apogee: 680.0 km

Inclination: 98.0 °

Period: 97.3 minutes

Semi major axis: 7007 km

RCS: 0.319 m² (medium)

Launch date: September 27, 2003
Source: United Kingdom (UK)
Launch site: PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (PKMTR)

BNSCSAT (British National Science Center SATellite, also known as UK-DMC) is a British DMC (multinational Disaster Monitoring Constellation) satellite that was launched by a Kosmos 3M rocket from Plesetsk at 06:12 UT on 27 September 2003. Besides disaster monitoring, it will help in urban planning and agriculture surveys.

1 27942U 03042D   22140.42887041  .00001209  00000-0  16259-3 0  9994
2 27942  97.9701 299.1052 0061481   3.0511 357.1063 14.79870895  2080

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC